[Greek or Hebrew] to draw; as the word [Greek or Hebrew] Cant. 1.4. Draw me we will run after thee. Is first, a word of violence and strength.1 1 King. 22.34. A certain man drew a bow, [Greek or Hebrew] Job 41.1. Wilt thou draw Leviathan with thy hook? Joh. 21.11. Simon Peter, [Greek or Hebrew], drew a net to land. Acts 16.19. They caught Paul and Silas [Greek or Hebrew], and drew them to the market place to the rulers. 2. Drawing is by wiles, and persuasion, or love; (For wiles is covered, or pretended love,) Judg. 4.6. Draw them (by persuasion) to Mount Tabor to battle. Hos. 11.3. I will draw them [Greek or Hebrew] with cords of man, with bands of love. It is such a drawing as is ascribed to the Whore, (though another word) Prov. 7.21. the Whore, which made the young man to decline, with the softness of her lips, in fair words, forced him. Jam. 1.14. Every man is tempted, when he is led, or drawn aside, by his own lust, and enticed. This drawing is by wiles, to steal a man off his feet. So Psal. 10.9. A bird is drawn in the net. It is then a word borrowed from bodily strength, which draweth heavy bodies out of one place to another, by strong hand. The sinner is a heavy creature. Grace is a strong thing to pull the man out of his element. There be then in Christs drawing. 1. Violence. 2. Persuasions of love, strong love runneth from the heart, through all the nerves and veins of Christs right arm, to draw a sinner to God. 3. There is art and wiles,2 which is nothing but masked love, for wiles cannot work upon the soul to draw it, but by the taking of reason, with apprehension of good; Hope is the painted net that draweth men to Christ, and the hope of the prey draweth the Fox to the net, the hope of food, the bird to the snare. The violence that Christ useth, is not on the reason, will, or any vital principles of the soul; no principles of life, can act as principles of life,3 from external drawings, and stirrings, life is an internal ⟨p. 228⟩thing; the line, and first point of the line, in motions of life, is from within, all the violence is done to the corrupt accidents, and sinful qualities of the soul, as to darkness, and sinful ignorance, to unbelief; frowardness and sourness to Christ, hatred of God, enmity of the carnal mind to the law of God;
〈non-Latin alphabet〉 to draw; as the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Cant. 1.4. Draw mee we will runne after thee. Is first, a word of violence and strength.1 1 King. 22.34. A certaine man drew a bow, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Job 41.1. Wilt thou draw Liviathan with thy hook? Joh. 21.11. Simon Peter, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, drew a net to land. Acts 16.19. They caught Paul and Silas 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and drew them to the market place to the rulers. 2. Drawing is by wiles, and perswation, or love; (For wiles is covered, or pretended love,) Judg. 4.6. Draw them (by perswasion) to Mount Tabor to battle. Hos. 11.3. I will draw them 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 with cords of man, with bands of love. It is such a drawing as is ascribed to the Whore, (though another word) Prov. 7.21. the Whore, which made the young man to decline, with the softnesse of her lips, in faire words, forced him. Jam. 1.14. Every man is tempted, when hee is led, or drawne aside, by his owne lust, and inticed. This drawing is by wiles, to steale a man off his feet. So Psal. 10.9. A bird is drawne in the net. It is then a word borrowed from bodily strength, which draweth heavy bodies out of one place to another, by strong hand. The sinner is a heavy creature. Grace is a strong thing to pull the man out of his element. There be then in Christs drawing. 1. Violence. 2. Perswasions of love, strong love runneth from the heart, through all the nerves and veines of Christs right arme, to draw a sinner to God. 3. There is art and wiles,
- 1Drawing is by either violence, wiles, or persuasion.Drawing is by either violence, wiles, or pers•asion.
- 2He drawe••.
- 3No proper violence in drawing the will.
